I have a mandrake 6.1 installation. I wanted to convert my root filesystem (ext2) to reiserfs, so I thought burning a 7.2 cdrom and booting it in rescue mode. Root and /usr are on an ibm scsi-2 disk, off of a tekram controller. /boot is on a random IDE drive. This has worked fine for me for over a year now. Unfortunately, when I boot the cdrom into rescue mode, I am unable to access any of the partitions on the scsi drive (I get an error that /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device). Poking around in /proc leads me to the conclusion that /dev/sda was never registered as a valid block device, so of course, no partitions on it will be visible. Oddly enough, the ncr53c8xx module is loaded, and I *did* see messages early in the cdrom boot sequence indicating that it was probing for scsi controllers and had found mine. The second odd thing is that if instead of F1/rescue, I just start an install process, when I get to the point where I would partition the disk(s), it *does* see /dev/sda and does in fact show me the existing partitions on /dev/sda! What am I missing here? _______________________________________________ Win4Lin-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
